NASCAR's Gordon, wife make plans for divorce

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Jeff Gordon's wife has filed for divorce after seven years of marriage to the four-time Winston Cup champion.

Brooke Gordon said the marriage is "irretrievably broken" in court papers filed Friday, the Palm Beach Post reported Saturday. It did not specify the problems.

She and her husband are considered the highest-profile couple in NASCAR, appearing together in commercials and magazine articles.

Jeff Gordon, in Darlington, S.C., for the Carolina Dodge Dealers 400, would not elaborate on the report Saturday.

Brooke Gordon is seeking exclusive use of the couple's oceanfront home, valued at $9 million, as well as alimony, two cars and periodic use of their boats and an airplane, the newspaper said.

Gordon's 32-year-old wife also wants her husband to continue to pay the salaries of their housekeepers, maintenance workers and chef.

Speedskater brings in female fans

SEATTLE -- Speedskater Apolo Anton Ohno may have been trailing Olympic glory, but the women who turned out for his official downtown homecoming greeted him like a rock star -- with screams, squeals and sighs.

The crowd's large female contingent waved signs with messages from the standard "We love you Apolo" to more inventive and personal commentary:

"I'll flash for your autograph!"

"You smelled my hair in 7th grade English!"

"Apolo, will you be my prom date?"

There were also plenty of copycat soul patches -- the tuft of hair just below Ohno's lower lip that spurred a stick-on craze at the Salt Lake City Game.

"Um," said Ohno to deafening shrieks that subsided long enough for fans to hear him thank them for the welcome home, though he trains at Lake Placid, N.Y., and has not lived here for several years.

Alien gets facelift for updated 'E.T.'

LOS ANGELES -- E.T., the spindly alien star of "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial," got a facelift for the movie's 20th anniversary rerelease.

In the updated version of his high-grossing classic, director Steven Spielberg had more than 140 shots reworked and, in some cases, filmed again.

The upgraded version is set to premier nationwide on Friday.

Special effects artists digitally manipulated E.T. to make him more lifelike.

Even the movie's signature shot of the boy Elliot riding his flying bicycle in front of a full moon was reshot to replace a figurine used in the original with an actual child.

"What worked in 1982 doesn't quite hold up," said Bill George, who supervised the updated special effects for Industrial Light & Magic.

Singer Keys draws British lawmaker's ire

LONDON -- Even Alicia Keys can't win everyone's hearts.

The five-time Grammy winner's performance Friday at a building connected to Parliament has drawn the ire of one of Britain's legislators.

An invited audience of journalists and schoolchildren saw the 21-year-old Keys sing at Portcullis House in a room often used for lawmakers' committee meetings. Playing a keyboard, the singer played songs including her hit single "Fallin" and a rendition of Roberta Flack's "Killing Me Softly."

But opposition Liberal Democrat legislator Paul Tyler was not impressed with the performance, saying Parliament facilities had effectively been used to promote a musician's albums.

"House authorities may have unwittingly created a precedent for all sorts of commercial events. How can they now resist the Brit Awards, Miss World or the launch of a new deodorant?"

'Metal Machine Music' gets first live show

BERLIN -- More than a quarter-century after its release as a double album of amplified noise and feedback, Lou Reed's "Metal Machine Music" is getting its first live performance this weekend from a German avant-garde classical ensemble.

"I find it very, very thrilling," said Reed, who worked on the project and will play in the performance by the 10-member group, Zeitkratzer. Members of the ensemble painstakingly transcribed the original record to be played by a classical string, wind, piano and accordion ensemble.

--From wire reports